X-Git-Url: https://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/blobdiff_plain/94016b5e8592335a5ac2db0b6b75eba959648efa..6406831fe5fc65c59b13573f2ed881e57ced4fb3:/blog/index.rss diff --git a/blog/index.rss b/blog/index.rss index 46783d2750..abb2d0accd 100644 --- a/blog/index.rss +++ b/blog/index.rss @@ -6,6 +6,33 @@ http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/ + + French Docbook/PDF/EPUB/MOBI edition of the Free Culture book + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/French_Docbook_PDF_EPUB_MOBI_edition_of_the_Free_Culture_book.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/French_Docbook_PDF_EPUB_MOBI_edition_of_the_Free_Culture_book.html + Thu, 1 Oct 2015 13:20:00 +0200 + <p>As I wrap up the Norwegian version of +<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig">Free +Culture</a> book by Lawrence Lessig (still waiting for my final proof +reading copy to arrive in the mail), my great +<a href="http://dblatex.sourceforge.net/">dblatex</a> helper and +developer of the dblatex docbook processor, Benoît Guillon, decided a +to try to create a French version of the book. He started with the +French translation available from the +<a href="https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Culture_Libre">Wikilivres wiki +pages</a>, and wrote a program to convert it into a PO file, allowing +the translation to be integrated into the po4a based framework I use +to create the Norwegian translation the the English edition. We meet +on the <a href="irc://irc.freenode.net/%23dblatex">#dblatex IRC +channel</a> to discuss the work. If you want to help create a French +edition, check out +<a href="https://github.com/marsgui/free-culture-lessig">his git +repository</a> and join us on IRC. If the French edition look good, +we might publish it as a paper book on lulu.com. A French version of +the drawings and the cover need to be provided for this to happen.</p> + + + The life and death of a laptop battery http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_life_and_death_of_a_laptop_battery.html @@ -739,82 +766,5 @@ of endorsed hardware</a>, which is useful background information.</p> - - MakerCon Nordic videos now available on Frikanalen - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/MakerCon_Nordic_videos_now_available_on_Frikanalen.html - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/MakerCon_Nordic_videos_now_available_on_Frikanalen.html - Thu, 2 Jul 2015 14:10:00 +0200 - <p>Last oktober I was involved on behalf of -<a href="http://www.nuug.no/">NUUG</a> with recording the talks at -<a href="http://www.makercon.no/">MakerCon Nordic</a>, a conference for -the Maker movement. Since then it has been the plan to publish the -recordings on <a href="http://www.frikanalen.no/">Frikanalen</a>, which -finally happened the last few days. A few talks are missing because -the speakers asked the organizers to not publish them, but most of the -talks are available. The talks are being broadcasted on RiksTV -channel 50 and using multicast on Uninett, as well as being available -from the Frikanalen web site. The unedited recordings are -<a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/MakerConNordic/">available on -Youtube too</a>.</p> - -<p>This is the list of talks available at the moment. Visit the -<a href="http://beta.frikanalen.no/video/?q=makercon">Frikanalen video -pages</a> to view them.</p> - -<ul> - - <li>Evolutionary algorithms as a design tool - from art - to robotics (Kyrre Glette)</li> - - <li>Make and break (Hans Gerhard Meier)</li> - - <li>Making a one year school course for young makers - (Olav Helland)</li> - - <li>Innovation Inspiration - IPR Databases as a Source of - Inspiration (Hege Langlo)</li> - - <li>Making a toy for makers (Erik Torstensson)</li> - - <li>How to make 3D printer electronics (Elias Bakken)</li> - - <li>Hovering Clouds: Looking at online tool offerings for Product - Design and 3D Printing (William Kempton)</li> - - <li>Travelling maker stories (Øyvind Nydal Dahl)</li> - - <li>Making the first Maker Faire in Sweden (Nils Olander)</li> - - <li>Breaking the mold: Printing 1000’s of parts (Espen Sivertsen)</li> - - <li>Ultimaker — and open source 3D printing (Erik de Bruijn)</li> - - <li>Autodesk’s 3D Printing Platform: Sparking innovation (Hilde - Sevens)</li> - - <li>How Making is Changing the World – and How You Can Too! - (Jennifer Turliuk)</li> - - <li>Open-Source Adventuring: OpenROV, OpenExplorer and the Future of - Connected Exploration (David Lang)</li> - - <li>Making in Norway (Haakon Karlsen Jr., Graham Hayward and Jens - Dyvik)</li> - - <li>The Impact of the Maker Movement (Mike Senese)</li> - -</ul> - -<p>Part of the reason this took so long was that the scripts NUUG had -to prepare a recording for publication were five years old and no -longer worked with the current video processing tools (command line -argument changes). In addition, we needed better audio normalization, -which sent me on a detour to -<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Measuring_and_adjusting_the_loudness_of_a_TV_channel_using_bs1770gain.html">package -bs1770gain for Debian</a>. Now this is in place and it became a lot -easier to publish NUUG videos on Frikanalen.</p> - - -